Sentences with phrase «upper middle class home»

Teachers KNOW that a child from a middle and upper middle class home has an extreme advantage over a child from a poor home.

Here is a story about a young man in my area who came from a upper middle class home, mother and father married, never divorced.

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At the other extreme, «there are several pockets in which only the upper - middle class and above can afford to own even the average home, most notably across the West and in the Northeast,» How Much notes.

Almost everybody felt themselves at home in the «middle,» as the euphemism for the well - off, «upper middle class,» indicates.

Unfortunately (I guess), i am from a upper / middle class, so I did lost couple friends over «home birth» and «churchy» issues.

From 1983 to 1992, I collected data on the pregnancy and childbirth experiences of 100 middle and upper - middle class mainstream pregnant women and mothers, and on the health professionals (physicians, nurses, midwives, childbirth educators) who care for them, through observation and interviews in hospitals, offices, and homes.

Studies at Rice and Columbia Universities reported eye - opening findings about how many more words children who grow up in middle and upper - class homes hear on a daily basis as compared to lower - income children.

Bridget Cardigan is shocked to learn that she is on the verge of losing her home and comfortable upper middle class lifestyle when her husband Don is downsized from his job.

The chatter of this strange assortment of upper - middle class Brits might work better in the theater, since the action takes place in real time set wholly in an extensively furnished London home (actually filmed in a West London studio), with the women doing most of the talk and much of the witty liftings.

The film's prologue touts the British village home to average middle class families, but it's quite clear the Miniver family are part of the modern upper class; with a substantial disposable income, a housemaid, and a cook, they also maintain British reserve to sometimes irrational, and rather precious degrees.

The tight - knit but tense atmosphere around the upper - middle - class Jacobs clan, however — parents Pat (Edie Falco) and Alan (John Turturro), adult daughter Dana (Slate) and still - at - home high schooler Ali (Abby Quinn)-- is emotionally timeless.

Vera cleans the houses of several upper - middle - class families; at home, too, she's the cook and cleaner - upper.

The film opens as the interracial couple are getting ready to travel up to her family home in a lily - white, upper - middle - class enclave.

Nicholson plays the now iconic cad Bobby Dupea, a shiftless thirtysomething oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of responsibility, who returns to his upper - middle - class childhood home, blue - collar girlfriend (Karen Black, in an Oscar - nominated role) in tow, to see his estranged, ailing father.

Taylor's latest collaboration with Allen, «Blue Jasmine,» opens July 26 and stars Cate Blanchett as an upper - class Manhattan housewife who, in the middle of a personal crisis, heads to the San Francisco home of her working - class sister Ginger.

Sitcom follows the going - on in the home of a dysfunctional upper middle - class French family who no longer know how to communicate with one another.

«People see that I'm upper middle class, that I'm a woman who stays at home, who is kept by her husband, and instantly there's no clout.

The teachers in predominantly poor, minority schools, who are reportedly mostly black and have adopted the more teacher - centered, authoritarian style of instruction that they view as appropriate for their students, are turning off white, upper - middle - class parents who want school climates similar to their own progressive homes, where problems are discussed.

The cultural differences between the newcomers and the old - timers in gentrifying neighborhoods can be easily, though inadequately, summarized: white, upper - middle - class families prefer a progressive and discursive style of interaction with their children, both at home and in school, and lower - income, nonwhite families prefer a traditional or authoritarian style of interaction with their children in these same venues.

Such may be the case for children from middle - and upper - class homes, but for those whose families can't afford camp or other activities, summer is often a time of emptiness and tedium.

· 2 % of parents admitted to buying a second home and using that address so that their children could gain access to a specific school, including 5 % of the upper middle classes

Owning homes in upper - middle class black neighborhoods puts families in a unique situation where they can begin to accumulate wealth, but where the racial composition of the neighborhood puts them at a disadvantage compared to black families in majority white neighborhoods.

Although Brookline is best known as the home of wealthy and upper - middle - class residents, it also has a long association with working - class Irish families and, more recently, with Asian families and with other immigrant groups drawn to the town for the high quality of its public schools.

In the Home Entertainment section, you can watch a special preview of CNT's Fall TV Line Up, with clips from The Underbelly of Paradise, Impotent Rage and Moorehead Rides Again as well as a sneak preview of Kung Fu Rainbow Lazer Force, the upper - middle class super hero team coming to Weazel TV's family values entertainment programming this fall.

The artist attributes her attraction to landscape painting to canvases created by or inspired by the early 20th century Circulo de Bellas Artes artists in Caracas, a style of paintings seemingly displayed in every middle - to upper - class Venezuelan home.

As the fourth of six children growing up in an upper - middle - class London family, Bowlby, born in 1907, and his siblings were cared for by nurses on the top floor of the family's spacious home.

This results in teens from lower middle class areas being placed in upper middle - class homes.

Similarly, many of the alternative care facilities, particularly foster homes, are in upper middle - class parts of the city.

A sizable share of home buyers for the new downtown developments are expected to come from China, where many in the middle and upper class are looking to the perceived safety of foreign real estate to diversify their wealth.